A Filtered Life

"A Filtered Life moves beyond simple denunciations of online sociality, exploring the promise and perils of our emerging digital age. This in-depth ethnographic analysis reveals how young adults craft selfhood and community through social media, with lessons for understanding an era in which digital technologies are part of everyday life from the outset."

Tom Boellstorff, Author of Coming of Age in Second Life and Ethnography and Virtual Worlds

"Taylor and Nichter show how complicated it can be to navigate the demands of authenticity in a competitive climate where everyone is editing themselves into a digital perfection. Read this book to learn the emotional costs of seeing and being seen as a 20-something under our contemporary online regime of self-branding."

Ilana Gershon, Author of The Breakup.20

"This lively study provides both compelling detail on a human level-the stories of young people who find themselves drawn into social media-and reflections on the broader implications for American culture. This book will interest all those who wonder about the impact of this enormously significant but little-understood aspect of contemporary life."

Peter Stromberg, Author of Caught in Play

"This engaging, timely, ground-breaking book provides important information about the smartphone-centered lives of today's emerging adults. It is a welcome and valuable contribution toward understanding the meanings that smartphones hold for emerging adults and will help them-and the rest of us-use them more wisely."

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Author of Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties